CAS Hanwei SH2472 Hunter L6/Bainite Wakizashi

The Hunter wakizashi is built on the hanwei L6/bainite blade in the shonogi zukuri style, and featuring superb koshirae, the Hunter is a very desirable and functional piece. The subdued green silk ito and green striped lacquered saya with green silk sageo compliment the blackened tsuba with golden accents, featuring a Raptor Stalking his next prey. Bainite is a structure of high-carbon steel that combines great strength with excellent flexibility and shock Absorption characteristics. It has been known as an exemplary Katana blade component for a number of years but its use has been restricted to a few top-class master smiths, due to the difficulties involved in performing the exacting heat treatment procedures necessary for the production of a bainite blade body in combination with the very hard martensite yakiba (edge section) required for Katana blades. Hanwei has now mastered this difficult process, using billets of l-6 tool steel (a very tough high-carbon low-alloy steel) as a starting point. Blades are forged and shaped in the normal way, then carefully heat treated to achieve the required bainite and martensite structures before final polishing. Overall: 27 1/2inches blade length: 20 inches handle length: 6 1/4 inches point of Balance: 3 1/2 inches sori: 1/2 inches blade steel: L6.